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Caroline Derry

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Senior Lecturer in Law, The Open University

Caroline formerly practised as a barrister and solicitor and has worked in academia for over 20 years. She has published on gender, sexuality and criminal law, legal history, and the entry of women into the legal profession.

Experience

  • 2017–present
    Senior lecturer in law, The Open University
  • 2002–2017
    Senior lecturer, London Metropolitan University

Education

  • 2007 
    University of Westminster, PhD Law

Publications

  • 2022
    The legal in socio-legal history: Woods and Pirie v Cumming Gordon, Journal of Law and Society
  • 2022
    Complete Criminal Law (8th edition), Oxford University Press
  • 2020
    Lesbianism and the Criminal Law, Palgrave
  • 2020
    Ethel Bright Ashford: more and less than a role model, Women's History Review
  • 2018
    Lesbianism and feminist legislation in 1921: the age of consent and 'gross indecency between women', History Workshop Journal
  • 2017
    'Female husbands', community and the courts in the eighteenth century, Journal of Legal History